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Another fascinating weekend of Premier League action saw Manchester United re-assert their title credentials against Tottenham.

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Right! Let’s try to get to the heart of the issue because it’s no longer a case a case of whether Bilic gets the bullet …only when! And it’s there that the real problem exists. Truth is he should have gone at the end of last season. There had been enough warning signs but instead, […]

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Sorry but I couldn’t resist the Halloween themed headline but it is quite apt. Our inability to hold on to a 2-0 lead against a struggling team without a striker was horrific whilst Antonio displayed the dexterity of Herman Munster at the end. Anyway what started out as a promising day turned quite sour at […]

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So just how bad are things! I regularly hear on the forums that we are in Avram Grant country as the team staggers through another seriously worrying season – a quarter of which has now passed. Having read this morning that we are gonna suffer the same fate as we did during that disastrous 2010-11 […]

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    Hugh hands out the marks on another disappointing afternoon   Hart: A series of remarkable saves made him the man of the match which really tells you all you need to know about the Irons performance 8 Zabaleta: Had his toughest examination of the season against  Zaha and failed it. Forgiven on the […]

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Joe Hart was chuffed to see Adrian in such great form against Spurs and welcomes the pressure it puts on him as the current holder of the first team sweater. After a career in squads with a powerful line up of keepers the England stopper is no stranger to such situations and says simply: “It […]

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Slaven Bilic has given a big clue into his team selection thinking for a game at Palace which he admits “determines his own situation” dubbing it “massively important..” He declared: “Mental strength is most ­important thing. That’s why you need leaders, those kind of senators in your team. We’ve enough of them, a few captains […]

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Our next match, in an ever continuing roller-coaster season so far, takes us to the south of London to face a struggling Crystal Palace side. West Ham’s second half performance against Spurs in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday was inspiring as we came from 2-0 down to inflict a most unlikely 3-2 win. Until that […]

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Slaven Bilic has admitted he has a positive headache ahead of the game against Palace tomorrow following the Wembley performance on Wednesday evening. The manager is feeling much like the Irons fans who gave ClaretandHugh their teams for the match – with barely one of them alike. We published those a couple of hours back […]

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It’s a well known fact that I have not been am not a great admirer of Andy Carroll’s game in the past  but  I owe him an apology. For having viewed last night’s s match – or the goals from it  several times – I have clearly missed much that’s in his game and thus […]

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Spurs were unbeaten in 11 games and arrived at Wembley after thrashing Liverpool in the Premier League and holding Real Madrid to a draw at the Bernabeu in the Champions League.

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Slaven Bilic will give Adrian his start tomorrow at Wembley against Spurs. This afternoon he told reporters at the pre-match press conference “Tomorrow is going to be Adrian, because he is a cup keeper. I do not want to pinpoint the players, not in front of the media and that, after we had a bad spell […]

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Some well chosen words from Gary Neville will continue to haunt West Ham as this season of despair goes on and on. For he claims that the Irons, Sunderland and Queens Park Rangers all have something in common. is after match comments went like this: “That was woeful from West Ham (and) when I think back, […]

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West Ham have been given the opportunity of taking a sigh of relief after the woes of Friday night and the fall out since. For as they prepare for Spurs at Wembley this week they have learned that they may be spared the threat of goal machine Harry Kane. The striker was subbed in the […]

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A vast majority of West Ham fans want Slaven Boic removed as manager of the club NOW. ClaretandHugh ran a poll which resulted in the biggest vote ever with a total – so far – of 3,007 casting their votes. We offered four options on the manager’s future. A a total of 2,337 votes were […]

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KIERAN GILL AT LONDON STADIUM: Two goals by Glenn Murray and a super strike by Jose Izquierdo secured Brighton their first away win in the top flight since March 1983.

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Andrew Thomas Carroll, a name that seems to infuriate me recently. I don’t know what’s worse his injury record or his discipline since joining the club in 2012, whether it’s his poor attitude on the field and picking up suspensions or whether it’s staying out all night partying. After having so many injuries you would think that he would try his best when he is fully fit and not try to jeopardise that, however this past weekend he did exactly that by…

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A report by  El Universal claims  Javier Hernandez has suffered from epilepsy since he was a boy. The claim has since been confirmed by the Chivas de Guadalajara doctor, Rafael Ortega, who treated him for six years. “Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes people to have recurrent seizures. They occur when nerve cell groups […]

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West Ham and Chelsea have been condemned by Spanish newspaper Marca who claimed Spurs are hated ‘due to their Jewish origins’ in an article originally published on Monday.  Marca has since issued an apology for the article which also said the north London club were ‘hated, but played good football’. Spurs, West Ham and Chelsea have […]

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Who remembers the name Kelechi Iheanacho? For those with shorter memories he was the young man West Ham were supposedly set to sign as their main striker way back in the summer. Without most of us having seen him or heard about him, his 22 goals for Manchester City over two seasons made him a […]

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“If you’re looking for a centre-forward with a history of scoring goals, it doesn’t get any better than Javier,” Mike Phelan, Sir Alex Ferguson’s former assistant at Manchester United has told Sky Sports. “But there is another side to it: Can you provide the service for him to score the goals? If the service is […]

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What do Pablo Zabaleta, Michail Antonio and Manu Lanzini have in common apart probably from being our three best players? Answer: A combined transfer fee of £15 million – less than the fees paid for Chicharito, Andy Carroll, Marko Arnautovicm and the combined value apparently of Robert Snodgrass and Jose Fonte. There’s a widespread misapprehension […]

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It’s now time to analyse all the main causes for discussion from Saturday’s eventful draw at Turf Moor, as Chris Wood struck to break Hammers hearts in Lancashire and leave us rooted to 15th spot. Fans Fume At “Liability” Carroll Over the past few weeks, many have called for the exile of forward Andy Carroll from the starting Xl after some shabby showings, but tensions came to the boil on Saturday at…

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Andy Carroll will be fined around £45,000 for his red card against Burnley at the weekend. Reports that the striker will be hit with a two week wage fine are incorrect and the Geordie’s indiscretion instead will be hit with a fine which represents a pretty lenient punishment given the severity of the crime. There […]

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Slaven Bilic has been defending the slow start made by his record signing Marko Arnautovic. Despite an improved performance – and with just 10 men – there was little coming down the left side from the Irons against Burnley. With Aaron Cresswell out of sorts again and and Arnautovic offering very little offensively, the team […]

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With Andy Carroll reckless sending off Slaven Bilic will be forced to choose a new combination up front when West Ham face Brighton at the London Stadium next Friday. In today’s Claret and Hugh poll we ask who should replace Andy Carroll up front and what formation should be played? With Andy Carroll unavailable for […]

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